With the advent of autumn, kitchens are filled with aromas of marinades, spicy seasonings and spices. And every time, along with recipes for favorite snacks that have been tested over the years, I want to cook something new.
Such a "highlight" can be pickled zucchini, prepared for the winter in one of the proposed ways.
Sterilization of blanks is a simple process, but it causes unnecessary trouble and takes some time. You can pickle vegetables for long-term storage with no less reliable canning methods. At the same time, all their useful properties will be preserved.
Additional Information! Zucchini is a type of pumpkin. They are rich in potassium and iron, carotene, vitamins C, group B, PP. Of all the types of this vegetable, zucchini contains the most vitamin C.
Don't let the multiple filling scare you - the workpiece will not take much time.
Note! 0.5 - 1 liter jars are best suited for home canning. They do not take up much space in the refrigerator (when stored after opening), and snacks are eaten very quickly.
Depending on the cutting method and filling density, this recipe produces 3-4 liter jars of crispy marinated zucchini.
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Important! Do not add more than 2-3 spices at a time. A "bouquet" of a large number of seasonings can change the taste of the entire workpiece and not for the better.
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Additional Information! Calculating the exact amount of marinade is quite difficult. If you use expensive natural vinegar and want to use it more rationally, pour the zucchini with a hot solution of salt and sugar (according to the recipe). And pour vinegar immediately into jars at the rate of:
for a 1-liter jar - 50 ml of spices or 75 ml.
Store pickled zucchini cooked with vinegar without sterilization in a cool place (pantry, cellar, refrigerator).
Important! Regardless of the method of preservation, jars and lids should always be well washed and sterilized.
Such an appetizer can be eaten after marinating in an hour. For this recipe, it is better to choose young zucchini of a small size.
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Note! You can take sunflower or olive oil, refined or unrefined. The taste of the snack will change along with your preferences.
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You can prepare another version of this snack: instead of sugar, take natural honey, and replace the oil with soy sauce (in this case, you need to adjust the amount of salt in the recipe to your liking).
Note! The shelf life of these blanks in the refrigerator is no more than 5 days.
But you can preserve pickled zucchini for a long time.
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With its specific taste, it distinguishes this appetizer from the general range of homemade preparations. However, it can be replaced with any other -, table, etc.
Sterilization of homemade products extends their shelf life. If you trust this method of preservation more, try preparing marinated zucchini for the winter, the taste of which, as the people say, will make you lick your fingers.
This recipe makes about three 1 liter jars.
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Additional Information! 200 - 300 g of carrots, cut into circles, are often added to the recipe. In this case, the weight of zucchini is reduced accordingly.
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Bulgarian pepper adorns both the look and taste of this snack.
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Such a recipe for marinated zucchini will surprise both vegetable lovers and connoisseurs of mushroom dishes with its taste.
Zucchini or young elastic zucchini are best suited for this preparation. A certain set of spices and compliance with the cooking technology will make pickled zucchini taste the same as milk mushrooms.
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Important! You can not reduce the amount or change dill to other greens. It is he who, in combination with cloves, gives the zucchini a mushroom flavor.
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Pickled cucumbers, sauerkraut and Soviet-era pickled zucchini still evoke nostalgia.
Apparently, this is why the simplest recipe for pickled zucchini, prepared in jars for the winter, is so in demand in home canning.
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Additional Information! Zucchini is easily digestible and is considered a dietary dish. They are added to baby food, to the diet of patients suffering from digestive problems. This vegetable is included in the diet menu for people who want to lose weight. The calorie content of zucchini is only 27 kcal per 100 g of product.
Zucchini was also noted in the recipes of Korean cuisine, beloved for its spiciness and piquant taste.
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It is more convenient for someone to make pickled zucchini without sterilization, saving time. Someone enjoys the harvesting process itself and the method of canning is no longer so important.
In any case, you will get delicious crispy pickled zucchini!
Zucchini in the ranking of summer vegetables are on the top lines, because they have a lot of advantages - the fruits contain many useful substances, minerals and vitamins. Summer residents usually boast of a large harvest, those who do not have their own plot of land are not upset, because the cost of zucchini on the market is ridiculous. It is important that they can not only be eaten in the summer, but also harvested for the winter. Below are proven recipes that will suit both experienced and novice hostesses.
Spices and spices turn simple products into an amazing ensemble, fragrant and tasty. Even commonplace pickled zucchini can be an amazing dish. Especially if you open a jar of vegetables in the middle of a cold winter.
Pickled spicy zucchini can be used as a side dish for any dish. Or prepare them for long-term storage.
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Time for preparing: 2 hours 0 minutes
Quantity: 4 servings
You can start with greens. From it, cleanly washed, sent to a colander, during the period that other products will be prepared, all unnecessary liquid will drain.
While you can do the marinade. Bring water to a boil for him. Then add bay leaf, spices and spices mixed together.
When the mass boils, pour vinegar into the pan.
Remove the dishes from the heat, add the oil to the hot marinade, stirring well.
While the fragrant liquid is cooling, you can prepare zucchini, herbs and garlic for pickling.
Remove the skin from the zucchini, the top peel from the garlic, disassemble it into slices. Cut in small pieces.
Since the zucchini is young, they still have tiny, very tender seeds, they will practically not affect the taste range, so they can not be removed. Cut the whole vegetable into thin strips.
Chop greens.
Mix the chopped products in a three-four-liter saucepan, preferably enameled.
Pour the marinade over the resulting mixture, even if it has not completely cooled down. When the whole mixture reaches room temperature, it is necessary to remove it for a day in the refrigerator.
Before laying out pickled zucchini in jars, both containers and lids should be sterilized.
Spread the finished mixture and seal the jars. Now you can remove them to a more reliable place, where there is no sunlight and it is quite cool.
Previously, pickling was used exclusively for harvesting vegetables and fruits for long-term storage in the winter. Today, pickled snacks appear at any time of the year, at the request of the household. Here is one of the recipes according to which delicious vegetables, if marinated in the evening, will be ready for breakfast.
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By morning, for breakfast, you can boil young potatoes, fry meat and put a plate of ready-made marinated zucchini!
In the list of the earliest summer vegetables, zucchini is not the last. They can be stewed and fried, boiled soups and pancakes, prepared for the winter - salted and marinated. Interestingly, in recent years, marinated zucchini have become very fashionable, which are served at the table almost immediately after cooking. As much as you want instant pickling, it will still take several hours for the vegetables to soak in the marinade.
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It remains to be patient for a few hours, and then quickly set the table, because it's time to taste marinated yummy!
To get especially delicious pickled zucchini, just follow the following recipe exactly. Zucchini cooks very quickly, the only difficult moment is sterilization, but it can be easily overcome if desired.
Many people like Korean cuisine - a large number of spices and spices give dishes an amazing taste and aroma. Korean-style zucchini is both an appetizer and a side dish.
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When pickling vegetables, spices, salt and sugar, vegetable oil and vinegar or acetic acid are used. But in the following recipe, one of the main roles is played by fresh honey, which gives an interesting flavor to the zucchini.
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Aromatic spices and spices are an important component of the pickling process, another essential attribute is garlic. According to the following garlic recipe, it will take a lot, but the aromas will be in the whole kitchen.
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Harvesting zucchini for the winter allows many families to significantly save the family budget. If you follow the technology, the pieces of zucchini will turn out delicious, crispy, fragrant. It is better to cork in a container with a volume of 0.5 liters.
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When the vegetable season comes to an end, fresh fruits and salads based on them, as a rule, get a little bored. At this moment, you really want to eat pickled cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers or zucchini. But not to open a jar of vegetables lovingly rolled up for the winter for the sake of a momentary whim? In this case, recipes come to the rescue, with the help of which you can pickle almost any fruit in just a few hours. Such methods help out the hostesses a lot in those moments when you unbearably want something special. We bring to your attention a recipe for quick-cooked marinated zucchini. Making such an appetizer is not difficult at all, all that is required of you is to chop the vegetables, and then combine them with spices.
It is quite possible to enjoy such a dish immediately after its preparation. However, the longer the zucchini marinates, the tastier they will become. If you have time, then leave the snack in the refrigerator overnight, then by morning, it will become unusually bright, rich and spicy. Such a dish will be a great alternative to fresh vegetable salads - it will perfectly complement any side dish. As an appetizer for spirits, zucchini is also ideal.
TIME: 20 min.
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Servings: 3
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The recipe for instant marinated zucchini begins with the preparation of the main ingredient. To create such a dish, only young fruits with delicate skin and small seeds should be used. Marinate raw zucchini. Rinse the zucchini thoroughly under running water, then pat dry with paper towels. Remove the tails located on both sides of the vegetable. Now you need to turn the fruits into thin long slices. This is easy to do with a regular vegetable peeler or cabbage shredder.
Place the zucchini ribbons in the bowl in which your appetizer will marinate. The container must be deep, because. the dish contains quite a lot of juice.
Take a small bowl. In it you will mix marinade for zucchini. Pour vegetable oil and vinegar into the bowl, and then add sugar and salt.
Finely chop a few clean sprigs of dill, and then add to the spice container.
Pass the peeled garlic through a press. Adjust the amount yourself. If you like spicier snacks, then add 2 cloves. Otherwise, one slice is enough. Add the garlic paste to the marinade bowl. Throw some black pepper in there as well.
Thoroughly mix the resulting marinade.
Add the aromatic sauce to the bowl of zucchini.
Mix the vegetable mix well. To ensure that the marinade is evenly distributed over all squash slices, do this procedure with clean hands.
Zucchini in a hurry can be served immediately, or let them brew in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour. Keep the snack in the cold, covering it with a tight lid. The longer the zucchini is infused, the sharper they will become. Enjoy your meal!
Adding table vinegar, fresh herbs and garlic to the marinade for zucchini is quite common for everyone. But not everyone decides to use honey for these purposes. Very in vain! Indeed, in this case, marinated young fast-cooking zucchini are very tender and original. A subtle sweetness gives the appetizer a very interesting note, which, in combination with wine vinegar, creates an incredible harmony of taste.
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Wash the zucchini, dry, and then free from the ponytails. Use a sharp knife, vegetable peeler, or cabbage shredder to cut the fruit into thin slices. Place the prepared vegetables in a deep bowl and salt well. Mix the mass with your hands and leave for half an hour. During this time, the zucchini will release juice.
The resulting time can be used to prepare the marinade. Rinse dill greens, dry and finely chop. Peel the garlic, wash and then cut into small pieces. Place the ingredients in a container with a tight fitting lid.
In a separate container, combine liquid honey, wine vinegar and vegetable oil. Add salt and pepper to taste, then mix well the liquid part of the marinade.
Drain the zucchini in a colander to free them from excess juice. Add the liquid marinade to the container with the garlic and dill. Mix well. Now put the stacked zucchini in the container and mix all the ingredients well with your hands.
Close the container with a snack with a tight lid and send it to the refrigerator. After 2 hours, pickled zucchini with honey will be completely ready. Remember that the longer the snack is in the refrigerator, the more delicious it will be.
And why not combine all the summer vegetables and season them with a marinade? In this case, you will get a real salad! Zucchini and cucumbers are in perfect harmony with each other, and tomatoes perfectly complement such a successful composition. The gentle sourness that appears in the salad due to apple cider vinegar makes the vegetable platter very original and tasty. Such an appetizer is prepared as quickly as classic pickled zucchini.
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Prepare zucchini in the standard way: rinse, dry, free from ponytails and chop into slices.
Rinse the cucumbers and pat dry. Cut off the ends, and cut the rest of the fruit into the same thin strips as the zucchini.
Rinse the tomatoes, remove the attachment points of the stalks, and then cut into long strips, about 1 cm thick.
Put all prepared strips of vegetables in a bag. Since the fruits will release juice, and the marinade consists of liquid components, use polyethylene without damage. Otherwise, the package will leak.
Finely chop the clean dill. Add it to vegetables. In a separate bowl, mix vegetable oil, apple cider vinegar, garlic, granulated sugar, salt and pepper. Pour the resulting marinade to the rest of the salad ingredients.
Tie the bag tightly, after releasing air from it. Shake the plastic wrap with the lettuce well until the marinade is evenly distributed over all the vegetables.
Place the vegetables in the bag in a deep bowl and refrigerate for 2-3 hours.
After the specified time, shake the contents of the package into a salad bowl. Decorate the appetizer as you wish and serve.
Korean dishes have long been loved by everyone. All this happened due to the fact that they are very spicy, rich, juicy and tasty. Korean zucchini is no exception. Such an interesting appetizer will perfectly complement any side dish and will give a real pleasure to all lovers of savory dishes. Zucchini without seaming is prepared as quickly and simply as other pickled vegetables.
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Remove the skin from the carrot and then rinse it. Grind the vegetable with a Korean grater. If this was not found on the farm, then simply cut the carrots into thin long strips.
Trim the tails off the clean zucchini. The rest of the fruit also grate for Korean vegetables. Free the onion from the husk, wash and chop into thin half rings. Pass the peeled garlic through a press. Combine all prepared vegetables in a deep bowl. Sprinkle the mass with sugar and salt.
Pour in the vinegar and add black ground pepper. Thoroughly mix the future salad. Pour the Korean vegetable seasoning into the center of the vegetable mass.
Heat vegetable oil strongly in a convenient dish. The product should almost boil. Pour the hot oil directly over the Korean seasoning. Leave the mass for a few minutes. During this time, the seasoning under the influence of hot oil will reveal its rich taste.
Now thoroughly mix the vegetable mass with spices. Transfer the Korean salad to a bowl and refrigerate.
After 1-2 hours, Korean-style zucchini without seaming is completely ready for use.
Zucchini marinated raw with lemon can be classified as a delicacy. Incredibly refined aroma and pale yellow color of the finished dish cause an irresistible desire to quickly taste such an unusual snack. A very bright and rich taste of pickled zucchini goes well with meat, potatoes, fish, rice and many other side dishes.
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Such an appetizer can rightfully be proud of its original, spicy taste. The dish will appeal to those who love the interesting taste of soy sauce, French mustard and garlic. Such zucchini will perfectly complement almost all main dishes, but they are especially good with meat cooked on the grill.
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For this recipe, zucchini should be chopped into thin circles. This can also be done with a shredder, vegetable peeler, or a sharp knife. Don't forget to wash the fruit first.
Transfer the vegetables to a bowl where they will marinate. Sprinkle the zucchini with salt and sugar. Leave for 15 minutes.
Chop the peeled onion into thin half rings. If you do not like the taste of this vegetable, then you can exclude it from the list of ingredients. However, it should be remembered that onions give dishes an interesting relish.
Peel the garlic, rinse and chop with a fine grater. Add the resulting gruel to the real vegetables. Send onion half rings there. Pour in soy sauce, honey and balsamic vinegar. Mix all ingredients well.
Add ground black pepper and French mustard. You can slightly increase or decrease the amount of the latter. Focus on your taste. Once again, thoroughly mix all the components of the snack.
Transfer vegetables to a glass jar. If there is marinade left in the bowl, pour it into a container with a snack. Close the jar with a tight lid and send it to the refrigerator. After 2 hours, spicy zucchini can be put on the table.
Remember that the longer the snack is infused, the more interesting its taste will be. Under the influence of soy sauce, zucchini can change their color a little, do not be afraid - this is quite normal. Enjoy your meal!